What is your favourite FLOSS application?

Mark Traceur marktraceur at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 18:18:37 UTC 2009


Accessibility:
Address Book:
Audio Editor: Audacity
Audio Player: Amarok
Calendar: Thunderbird/Lightning
CD Ripper:
Collaboration: Gobby
Database Management:
Desktop Environment OR Window Manager: Openbox
Development: GCC! (Gotta go back to the basics)
Dictionary/Translation:
Disc Burner: K3B
E-mail Client: Thunderbird
File Compression:
File Manager:
Finance:
Learning tool:
FTP Client:
Game: Battle for Wesnoth
Image Creator/Editor: GIMP
Image Viewer:
Instant Messenger: Pidgin
Mapping:
Mathematics:
Misc Utilities:
Note-taking:
P2P: rtorrent (seriously this program changed the way I use computers)
Package Manager: Synaptic (nothing KDE does can change my mind,
Synaptic is a rockin' manager)
Personal Wiki: TiddlyWiki!
Phone/PDA Sync Tool:
Photo Organizer:
Plenetarium:
PDF/PS Reader: SumatraPDF (not a Linux app, but it's saved me from
downloading Adobe poison on more than one occasion)
PDF Writer:
Security:
Spreadsheet: OpenOffice
Terminal Emulator:
Text Editor: Gedit
Video Player: VLC
Virtual Machine / Windows Emulator: WINE
Web Browser: Firefox
Word Processor: OpenOffice


SPECIAL CATEGORIES

Non-free applications that you use: Windows Movie Maker. There is
simply no alternative that I have yet found. Feel free to correct me.
Websites for finding new applications: I read reddit.com and watch the
opensource, ubuntu, and linux subreddits for cool apps.
Unreleased and highly anticipated application: CHROME OS!!!!! (Just
kidding, that would be so lame)
Dying/dead applications (abandonware) still in use:
Software available for Windows that you need on Linux: Star Wars
Galaxies!!!! Bit of a stretch, I know.
One outstanding issue with Linux/Ubuntu that needs immediate attention:
Any organisation or community deserving great honours:
Any FLOSS developer deserving great honours:
Anything else deserving great honours:

--MarkTraceur

-- 

Microsoft does half the work that Open Source developers do, and they
get all the money. Where's the justice there?

Ubuntu One Music Store  -
http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/a4vmn/ubuntu_one_music_store/




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